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Between the Structure and the Agent:

A contentious debate has been under way for decades over whether prostitution is inherently harmful to women, or a job that can be freely chosen. This debate has become particularly heated around one subject: human trafficking for sexual purposes. In recent decades human trafficking has manifested in many forms and affected countless victims. There has also been a rise in films and other media dev

Saklegitimation för enskilda i svensk förvaltningsprocess

I svensk förvaltningsrätt har den generella rätten att överklaga sedan lång tid varit öppet formulerad i lag och lämnats till domstolarna att konkretisera. I praxis har talerätten gjorts beroende av indikationer i lag och förarbeten för att avgöra vilka intressenter som ska ha rätt att överklaga. Tre grunder för saklegitimation kan urskiljas. För det första är den som haft partsställning vid myndiIn Swedish administrative procedural law the right to appeal has long been regulated in a manner which has left it to the courts to decide the specifics. In practice who has the right to appeal has been determined by viewing the law in conjunction with the preparatory works established in its creation. Three different bases for standing can be identified. First and foremost the addressee of a deci

Tillvaratagandet av allmänna intressen - En diskussion av allmänna intressen i miljöprocessen

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka vilken roll allmänna intressen spelar i den svenska miljöprocessen. Vidare avser arbetet redogöra för de förutsättningar under vilka enskilda, organisationer och myndigheter kan företräda sådana intressen. Uppsatsen berör även vilka som beslutar i frågor som rör allmänna intressen. Då det finns en mängd allmänna intressen som kan aktualiseras i svensk rätt harThe aim of this essay is to investigate the role of public interests in Swedish environmental law. Furthermore the essay aims to explain under which circumstances individuals, organizations and government agencies may represent public interests. The essay also discusses the question of who rules in matters concerning public interests. Since a variety of different public interests may occur in Swed

Kvinnor, fred & säkerhet - En undersökning av FN:s implementering av resolution 1325 i Kosovo och Östtimor

This paper analyzes how the UN has implemented Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security in two peacebuilding missions. This is examined through a study on how the UN has worked towards gender mainstreaming and to increase women’s participation at the official and formal level of the peacebuilding in Kosovo and East Timor. This is done with a comparative two-case study based on

Tillsammans med dig förstår jag andra – betydelsen av joint engagement för tre-fyraåringars prestation på false belief-testet Maxi

Studiens syfte var att undersöka betydelsen av joint engagement för tre-fyraåringars prestation på false belief-testet Maxi. Joint engagement, som beskriver upplevelsen av att dela ett objekt eller händelse med någon annan, har i tidigare studier associerats med perspektivtagande. En testsituation designades där false belief-testet administrerades i form av en film om karaktären Maxi. Ett nytt tesThe aim of this study was to investigate the effect of joint engagement on three- to four year old children’s performance on the false belief-task Maxi. Joint engagement has been associated with perspective taking in previous studies and refers to the child’s and the adult’s mutual engagement in an object. The false belief-task in this study was designed as a film about the character Maxi. Another

The Path to Civil Sectarian War

This study explains how the escalation of the Iraq War led to a parallel civil sectarian war between Sunni and Shia insurgents during the years 2003-2006. I used the method of process-tracing and the theory Greed and Grievances. With the theory and method I could conduct the process-tracing and explain how the two independent variables opportunity and objective grievances fueled and enabled the in

Expert Knowledge within a Prominent Environmental Think Tank

The global climate change negotiations are experiencing a rescaling of international actors. Several of these actors are scientific communities that aim at providing policy recommendations based on expert knowledge for the negotiations. The literature within the science-policy nexus is applied to investigate the significance of expert communities however the literature does not target environmenta

Nonviolence and the Arab Spring?

The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate how nonviolent methods can be successfully used in struggles against repressive regimes. This is done by examining two cases of uprisings in the Arab Spring, Egypt and Tunisia. Drawing from theories on nonviolence, mainly Gene Sharp; five elements that are considered favourable for nonviolent struggles has been selected for the analysis. The methodology

Brytpunkt: Ghouta? En idéanalys av USA och Rysslands argumentation före och efter kemvapenattacken i syriska Ghouta 2013

The following paper examines the arguments of two leading actors: USA and Russia with regards to military intervention in Syria before and after the chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburb Ghouta on August 21st, 2013. The purpose of the study is to identify if and in what ways the arguments changed after the attack and to identify which ideas regarding sovereignty dominated the actors’ argu

The Responsibility to Protect - A Critical Case Study of the Central African Republic

Governments around the world committed to the Responsibility to Protect principle at the World Summit in 2005. The principle declares that states have the primary responsible to protect its population from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity and that this responsibility is transferred to the international community if a state would be unable or unwilling to protect

Water is Thicker than Blood: A Structured Focused Comparison on International Relations in the South China Sea

The overarching aim of this study is to gain understanding on what major state-centric international relations-theory could best explain certain aspects on modern inter-state maritime disputes. From neorealist and neoliberalist schools of thought an operational schematic was formed as a theoretical ram to break down and explain underlying structures in instances of the empirical data-universe, whi

How Agile Workers Make Sense of Managerial Communication

TITLE How Agile Workers Make Sense of Managerial Communication AUTHORS Anna Hagberg, Yang Li & Farah Khanjar SUPERVISOR Katie Sullivan DATE 23rd May 2014 PURPOSE The purpose of the research project is to contribute to agile communication theory with insights about how agile workers make sense of managerial communication. RELEVANCE Due to the rapid changes organizations in the software

The Ideal Woman- a case study of the Coca-Cola Company's 5by20 initiative.

Since mid-2000s, a great emphasis of the global development agenda is directed toward women and their participation in society, especially as wageworkers and political actors. Hand-in-hand with this emphasis on women’s empowerment and gender equality as the ‘solution’ for development, the involvements of private actors in the development arena have increased as well. The notion of private corporat

Securitizing Libya: The securitizing aspects of UN:s and NATO:s justification of Operation Unified Protector

One of the toughest challenges for the international community is to justify military interventions in sovereign states. Echoing in terms of post-colonialism, underlying interest and power domination, military interventions must be argued for and legitimized in order to gain support from both public and institutional opinion. This is even more essential in our modern era with its rapid and unimped

Mainstream Discourse: Contrasting Perspectives on CCT Programs and Gender Equality

With the deadline of the 2015 Millenium Development Goals approaching fast, developmental institutions are eager to identify which programs have made an impact and worth continuing as well as which have failed. There have been a number of programs conducted and evaluated in the last decade and now is the time to investigate where they can be improved and restructured. Conditional cash transfers (C

A Reunification of Close Ties - Identity in the Russian Claim to Crimea

This study examines how identity is expressed in the Russian government rhetoric through a narrative analysis, focusing on statements given during March 2014, by President Vladimir Putin and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov. The central themes of interest are region, religion, race/ethnicity and language, which are discussed in relation to the societal themes patriotism, security, siege a

Combining Volunteer Tourism and Development Studies A case study of development students’ reflections on volunteering in the Global South

Volunteer tourism (VT) has over the past decades rapidly increased and many young individuals travel to the Global South with intentions to develop communities and travel. Critique has however indicated that unskilled young individuals do not contribute to the development of the community, rather the opposite. This study examines how students of development studies at Lund University reflect back

Möt mig där jag är - Personer med ett polyamoröst relationssätt berättar om sina upplevelser av psykoterapi

Syftet med studien var att undersöka polyamorösas upplevelse av terapi med fokus på bemötande, den terapeutiska relationen och klienternas öppenhet med att berätta om sina relationsätt. Semi-strukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med sex deltagare som samtliga är polyamorösa och har erfarenhet av psykoterapi. Studien har en hermeneutisk fenomenologisk vetenskapsteoretisk ansats och materialet analysThis study aims to investigate polyamorous individuals’ experiences of psychotherapy. We inquired whether attitudes towards polyamory may influence the therapeutic relationship, and clients’ experiences of being open about their polyamorous lifestyle. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six participants who are polyamorous and have experience of psychotherapy. The study is based on a he

I gränslandet mellan aktiebolags- och obligationsrätt - En principiell analys av aktieägaravtalets rättsverkningar i ljuset av den aktiebolagsrättsliga separationsprincipen

Aktieägaravtal är mycket vanligt förekommande i svenska privata aktiebolag. Avtalsformen är sprungen ur det praktiska rättslivet och saknar legaldefinition. Avtalen ger aktieägare möjlighet att värna om ägarintressen som avviker från ABLs värdemonistiska syn på aktiebolag som kapitalassociationer med rent vinstmaximeringssyfte. Det utbredda användandet av aktieägaravtal blottlägger den diskrepans Shareholder agreements are commonly used in Swedish limited companies. This is a type of contract that has evolved without any involvement from the legislator, and therefore lacks a legal definition. The contracts allow for the protection of shareholders' interests when they deviate from the monistic notion of the Swedish Companies Act, which states that limited companies are pure capitalist f